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by auxym 5y ago
Yes! However, I'll say this: If you're using a new language that you're trying to learn, don't also try to do it for time. That is to say, take your time, it doesn't matter if it takes you a few days to do a singl
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by auxym 5y ago
I also learned Nim in 2018 with AoC. I found one of the best things was coming up with my own solution, then looking at other people's solutions (the Nim community usually does Advent of Nim where a bunch of people post their solution
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by auxym 5y ago
There's also the fact that midrange GPUs are now the price of a full console, if you can even find one for sale, and there's no immediate end in sight to the shortage.
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by auxym 5y ago
We're veering pretty far off-topic, but, as a mechanical engineer working in research, yes. Develop a new ceramic material for advanced turbofan engines? Not tech. Web front end? Oh yeah, tech.
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by auxym 5y ago
Maybe checkout Advent of Code instead. Less mathy, more fun (IMO).
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Cognitive Behavioral Therapy
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by auxym 5y ago
Funny you mention Nim, lately I've been toying around with running Nim on microcontrollers: https://github.com/EmbeddedNim/svd2nim https://github.com/auxym/nim-on-samd21
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by auxym 5y ago
There's this PCB design course that was posted on HN a couple weeks ago, teachmepcb.com, so I'll be spending a couple hours on that. Other than that, I need to replace all 3 smoke alarms in the house that are expiring soon, and re
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by auxym 5y ago
I used to use shopbot.ca but it became fully useless around 2 or 3 years ago.
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by auxym 5y ago
> I have a 5 year investment horizon, and are willing to take on a large risk. These two statements would be considered contradictory by common financial standards. 5 year horizon means you need the money in 5 years. However, high risk m
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by auxym 5y ago
Well, since GP said "other than coins", I interpreted it to mean "uses of cryptography other than cryptocurrency (coins)". But, well, I'm getting downvoted, so probably not.
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by auxym 5y ago
...yes? cryptography? https? ssh? password hashing?
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Nim's type system was inspired by Wirthian languagrs and it does have subranges.
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git log?
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LibrePCB 0.1.6 Released(librepcb.org)
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I worked at a place that was paying almost 20K CAD per seat per year for CATIA and some add-ons (PDM, FEA, etc). I hear ANSYS, if you get a few products, quickly runs up in that range also.
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by auxym 5y ago
Nim took some inspiration from the Pascal/Modula/Oberon family, notably for its type system. It had an original goal of having a small and simple core, with a powerful macro system allowing extensions where needed, but the languag
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by auxym 5y ago
Eh, Tcl's metaprogramming, as far as I remember, is highly text based. EIAS.
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by auxym 5y ago
Nothing precludes you from using bash scripts even if ysit fish interactively. Just set a shebang in the script, or run it with bash script.sh. That said, personally, for anything more involved than a one-liner alias kind of script, I turn
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by auxym 5y ago
I believe the best experience ATM is with VSCode and the nim plugin. It's not perfect, but th community is aware and there is work underway to improve tooling: https://github.com/nim-lang/RFCs/issues/300
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> Or you can do high level stuff thanks to well though generics and meta programming. Metaprogramming is also surprisingly useful for low-level, embedded programming. Eg, using compile-time logic (branching, looping) to decide which bit
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by auxym 5y ago
I have not done a lot of Go, but I'm pretty sure Nim's concurrency story isn't up there with go, at least not yet. Nim has other advantages, including great Interop with C or C++ as it compiles to these languages and allows l
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O1heap: Constant-complexity deterministic memory allocator for embedded systems(github.com)
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by auxym 5y ago
I'm a mechanical engineer by trade, but like many others here, have been a "computer geek" since a very young age. We had dialup internet and a 486 running DOS at home in the early 90s when I was around 8 or so, which wasn&#x
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by auxym 5y ago
I work for a university research lab, and started to use Clockify to personally track how much time I spend on various projects (university actually doesn't have a timecard system). Love it, and converted many of my colleagues to it wh
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by auxym 5y ago
Hi, looks super interesting, I'm signing up! Is there any chance you would consider offering some sort of "course completion certificate" with number of hours? I'd be interested in getting these hours credited as Continu
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by auxym 5y ago
For what it's worth, the latest revision of the Engineers Act in Quebec (2020, the previous revision was from 1962), has a much wider definition of engineering works and reserved acts, which does include software, if it can have an
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by auxym 5y ago
Microsoft lost their appeal in Quebec https://www.oiq.qc.ca/en/media/pressReleases/Pages/default.a...
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Justin is Pierre's son.
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by auxym 5y ago
Common on industrial stamping presses also. Operator loads metal sheet, then needs to activate the press with two physical buttons, separated with enough distance that it can only be done with two hands.

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